Remembering the 27-year-old victim of a Boko Haram attack - and the many nameless, faceless Nigerians like him. Yola, Nigeria - Thirty-four people died in a November 17 bomb blast. It was one of many to target the Nigerian city. As we tally the number of dead from such attacks in Nigeria, we ...

The Lake Chad basin has in recent years become an important epicentre of violence, its population suffering intensified attacks by the Islamic State’s West Africa Province (ISWAP), also known as Boko Haram. At the end of 2014, ISWAP’s violence expanded from northeast Nigeria to Cameroon, Chad and Ni...